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Author: Heather du Plessis-Allan

People calling for a raise in the pension age can take a hike, frankly. 

You always hear this from the same kind of people, don’t you? Soft-handed city dwellers who sit behind a desk all day for their jobs, who only ever break a sweat in a gym class. 

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 I am only 53 and I feel my body shutting down, brown and I am in a physical labour job... I am hoping I will make it to 65 let alone them raising it... bugger that and those that say we should come do my job for a couple of months and see how you feel.
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Jane Patterson of RNZ
 

The $20 billion spend-up on defence is the latest COVID-19 casualty, with a range of options to scale it down now before the finance minister.

The major investment in a range of new military hardware and upgrade was announced by former Defence Minister and New Zealand First MP Ron Mark in 2019.

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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Jamie Ensor

National's Chris Penk has gone on Australian television to say he's "embarrassed" for New Zealand that Defence Minister Peeni Henare weighed in on the removal of a controversial essay from an Army website.

The essay, titled 'Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat', was last week awarded a prize in the Chief of Army Writing competition and published on the Knowledge-Enabled Army (KEA) website.

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Author: Dan Satherley

A policeman is in hospital after being shot Friday night during a routine traffic stop in Hamilton.

Two people have been arrested in relation to the incident, which happened just before midnight on Bankwood Rd, Chartwell. 

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Author: Reuters

Pfizer plans to ask US regulators to authorize a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker's top scientist said on Thursday, based on evidence of greater risk of reinfection six months after inoculation and the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.

Pfizer chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten said the recently reported dip in the vaccine's effectiveness in Israel was mostly due to infections in people who had been vaccinated in January or February. The country's health ministry said vaccine effectiveness in preventing both infection and symptomatic disease fell to 64 percent in June.

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Category : Defence
Author: Kirsty Lawrence

The New Zealand Defence Force is taking a hard line against unvaccinated staff with some being publicly outed for not having the Covid-19 vaccination.

A letter sent to Minister of Defence Peeni Henare, which Stuff obtained, stated several members of the armed forces were being treated unfairly or unreasonably because they were unvaccinated.

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Author: Zane Small

Treasury's admission that officials use "professional judgement" to predict house prices, rather than a solid economic model, has shocked Green, National and ACT MPs, who are demanding answers.

Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick, who sits on Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee (FEC), has for three weeks now sought a briefing from Treasury officials on how it comes up with advice on house price forecasting. 

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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Jamie Ensor

Peeni Henare wasn't behind the removal of a controversial essay rallying against "identity-based" diversity in the Defence Force from a website, his office says.

On Wednesday, it emerged an essay titled 'Can the Army Afford to go Woke, Benign Social Progress or National Security Threat' had won the Chief of Army Writing Competition, only to later be removed from the Knowledge-Enabled Army (KEA) website. 

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